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20th October 2018

The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has called on ministers and London mayor Sadiq Khan to work with the industry to “support, devise and implement” national and international vehicle standards (including the possible retrofit of equipment), rather than push ahead with…

18th September 2018

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22nd August 2018

Scania has begun the “challenging process” of reducing its backlog of truck orders built up after a delivery and order stop caused by a lengthy strike at one of the manufacturer’s main casting suppliers. “This is probably the worst disruption…

1st August 2018

If you’re finding yourself sat in a Truck Stop with your morning brew and bacon butty, ferry bound, ask yourself have you booked with Freightlink? If not; why? We know how difficult it can be to organise your own passage…

26th July 2018

A new map revealing the UK’s most dangerous roads has been produced using fatality data gathered by the Department of Transport and the Police Service of Northern Ireland over a five-year period. The map identifies the most high-risk highways and…

5th July 2018

Scania has announced it is unable to fulfil its deliveries to customers of more than 2000 trucks ordered with V8 engines due to an ongoing strike at one of its crucial suppliers of cast engine components New sales of industrial and…

22nd June 2018

Retained profits in the transport and logistics sector decreased by 96.0 per cent compared to the same period a year ago, according to new figures. In addition, the volume of bad debt owed to the sector reached over £2.8m, up…

13th June 2018

‘Operation Brock’ has been announced as a new temporary plan to ease traffic in Kent in the event of cross-Channel disruption. The interim plans, revealed in May by roads minister Jesse Norman, will allow traffic to travel in both directions…

13th June 2018

DVSA is reminding operators a “significant number” of specialised heavy vehicles – including breakdown vehicles, tractor units pulling exempt trailers, and mobile cranes – have now fallen into scope of annual testing for the first time. To declare their weight and load,…